SUSE SLES15 Security Update : cephfs (SUSE-SU-2026:5111-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 376960

Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2026:5111-1 advisory.

This update for cephfs fixes the following security issues:

- CVE-2026-68160: ceph: fix pre-auth out-of-bounds read on snaptrace in ceph_handle_caps() (bsc#1275472).
- CVE-2026-43273: ceph: supply snapshot context in ceph_zero_partial_object() (bsc#1264446).
- CVE-2026-52961: ceph: fix BUG_ON in __ceph_build_xattrs_blob() due to stale blob size (bsc#1269129).
- CVE-2026-46052: ceph: only d_add() negative dentries when they are unhashed (bsc#1267494).
- CVE-2026-52962: ceph: fix a buffer leak in __ceph_setxattr() (bsc#1269135).
- CVE-2026-43420: ceph: fix i_nlink underrun during async unlink (bsc#1264814).
- CVE-2026-43419: ceph: fix memory leaks in ceph_mdsc_build_path() (bsc#1264661).
- CVE-2026-23201: ceph: fix oops due to invalid pointer for kfree() in parse_longname() (bsc#1258337).
- CVE-2025-68297: ceph: fix crash in process_v2_sparse_read() for encrypted directories (bsc#1255403).
- CVE-2025-38660: ceph: parse_longname(): strrchr() expects NUL-terminated string (bsc#1248634).

- ceph: validate snapdirname option length when mounting (git-fixes).
- ceph: fix possible integer overflow in ceph_zero_objects() (git-fixes).

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected cephfs-kmp-64kb and / or cephfs-kmp-default packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 376960

File Name: suse_SU-2026-5111-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 11/6/2026

Updated: 11/6/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5

Percentile: 94.14

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-52962

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:cephfs-kmp-64kb, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:cephfs-kmp-default

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/5/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/22/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-38660, CVE-2025-68297, CVE-2026-23201, CVE-2026-43273, CVE-2026-43419, CVE-2026-43420, CVE-2026-46052, CVE-2026-52961, CVE-2026-52962, CVE-2026-68160

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2026:5111-1

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